Chapter 14 Far Mountain and Zhongshan (2)
"How many revolutionary parties did that old woman kill? Do you think about it? Qiu Jin, Xu Xilin..."
"There are also the six gentlemen of the reformed school of 1898."
"I'm full of blood debt! Brother Yuanshan, do you think Empress Dowager Cixi can escape this disaster if she died twenty years ago? No! That's too cheap. It's not that she won't repay her. It's not that the time has come... It's right now, we're going to repel Empress Dowager Cixi's life! The life of Yehenara! The life of the Qing Dynasty! It's also my old grandson's letter of fame for Mr. Sun Yat-sen in the sky!"
"Your Excellency Commander, your loyalty to the revolution really makes the far mountain ashamed!"
Qi Yuanshan thought to himself that Sun Damazi was talking about revolution, but he was just robbing the tomb under the guise of revolution.
"Okay, brother Yuanshan, you have a good rest tonight. I will lead the troops and revolution on the spot early tomorrow morning!" Sun Dianying took out his pistol and pointed it at the floor tiles, "We brothers can also open our eyes and see what Empress Dowager Cixi looks like?"
Sun Dianying was a little drunk and staggered out of the East Side Hall. Qi Yuanshan lived alone in this huge palace, as if accompanied by the ghost of Empress Dowager Cixi. He sat on the marching bed and repeatedly wiped his pistol. Tonight, Sun Dianying had already handed over the bottom. During the day in Longen Hall, Qi Yuanshan always felt that he had eyes staring at him behind his back, and his neck was chilly.
During this stay, I couldn't sleep anymore, whether it was Qiyuan Mountain, who lived in the East Side Hall, or Empress Dowager Cixi who lived dozens of meters deep at the foot of Qiyuan Mountain.
The second half of the night.
Qi Yuanshan dreamed of her, and no one knew her real name? She dreamed that she was lingering in the waves of the Old Summer Palace, leaning against the young Emperor Xianfeng. She was invincible and radiant. She was fantasizing about the brilliant life of the future, fantasizing about the whole world under the soles of the flower pots and shoes...
A gust of wind blew down above his head. Qi Yuanshan opened his eyes and the sunny sky in the Old Summer Palace turned into a dark night in the imperial tomb of the Qing Dynasty. The daughter of Yehenara's family was blown away by the wind, leaving only a moon on the roof.
This is not a dream, but a gap was made in the roof of the East Side Hall, and someone lifted a few tiles and hung a rope.
Qi Yuanshan carried a pistol and turned over. His gunshot skills and eyesight were excellent. He saw the person on the roof at a glance. Just as he was about to raise his hand to shoot, a sound came from above, like a stone smashed down, and he could hear it clearly.
"Tonight is dangerous, please come with me!"
In fact, the volume is very light and others can't hear it. It seems that a headphone cable is connected and inserted directly from the roof into the ear. Qi Yuanshan had expected the word "dangerous", but he didn't know where the sacred place was on the roof?
After hesitation, he decided to go up. Qi Yuanshan inserted his pistol in his arms, grabbed the rope with both hands, and clamped his feet on the lower plate. In the past two years, he became more and more powerful and easily climbed up the beam of the house.
After creeping out of the roof of the East Side Hall, the wind whistling the cemetery around it, and the souls of the five emperors of the Qing Dynasty, Qi Yuanshan saw clearly the other person's face in his twenties, wearing black clothes, similar to his body, face contours and facial features, all have some similarities.
He is Zhongshan.
"Have we seen it?"
"A few years ago, in Guangzhou, at the foot of Yuexiu Mountain."
"Are you?" Qi Yuanshan frowned. The brighter the moonlight became, and the clearer the memory became. "A You's subordinate? The assassin of Taibai Mountain?"
"Well..." Zhongshan controlled his emotions and whispered, "It is not advisable to stay here for a long time, we will leave quickly."
At the entrance of the East Side Hall, including Longen Hall, there were guards standing guard. There were marching and training sounds outside the cemetery, and occasionally one or two gunshots were heard. It seemed that the large army was being mobilized. Qi Yuanshan knew that the situation was serious, so he followed Zhongshan to climb down from the East Side Hall, grabbed the rope and climbed over the wall, and left the cemetery.
In the wilderness of the black bead, behind it is the lush hillside, full of the rustling sound of the wind blowing the pine forest. Qi Yuanshan asked, "Why do you want to save me?"
"Brother, don't you recognize me?" Zhongshan dragged Qi Yuanshan to the nest, opened the fire and illuminated his face, "I am Zhongshan, your younger brother!"
Before he finished speaking, Qi Yuanshan reached out to touch his brother's eyebrows, as if he was touching a ball of fire. The two brothers' father was killed by Yuan Shikai in the year of the Revolution of 1911, and soon he left the streets and separated. At that time, Qi Yuanshan was twelve years old, and he remembered the scene of his father being killed and the whole family crying. He was sent to the military camp to be a soldier, but he still missed his brother in his heart. He once secretly ran out to search, but there was no trace of Zhongshan again.
Qi Yuanshan pushed his younger brother to the top, took off Zhongshan's shirt, and saw a triangular scar on his shoulder, and tears fell like rain... He remembered that when he was a child, the two brothers played firecrackers during the New Year, and he accidentally threw the firecrackers on his younger brother, exploded a bloody hole, leaving behind the triangle scar. He was hung up by his father for three days.
"Zhongshan!"
This time, there was no mistake. The two brothers finally recognized each other and hugged each other and cried bitterly. Qi Yuanshan said no wonder, a few years ago, when I saw the boy beside Ayou, I felt very familiar with him and felt indescribable intimacy in my bones.
Qi Yuanshan was about to ask him how he had been through these years? How could he get along with the assassins in Taibai Mountain? But he heard the fierce sound of gunfire outside the cemetery. Qi Yuanshan felt tight and climbed up to look into the distance. Outside the red gate of the night, a large tent of fire lit up.
"Brother, stop looking, the cavalry company you brought has been made into dumplings by Sun Dianying."
"It's outrageous!"
Qi Yuanshan was not mentally prepared, but Sun Damazi had just drunk alcohol with him, and he was really cruel and ruthless.
"This bandits in this area are rampant. Sun Dianying plans to claim that you met the remaining warlords on the road, or bumped into the troops of Xiao Liuzi outside the pass, and the entire army was wiped out and died under the Great Wall." Zhongshan sneered, "Brother, this is how the warlords are, turning their hands into clouds, turning their hands into rain."
"Brother, if you hadn't been to remind me, I'm afraid I'm dead."
Before he finished speaking, countless torches lit up around Cixi's tomb, and indeed a large group of men came to search for him.
Zhongshan grabbed his arm and said, "Brother, I finally saw you, hurry up and run away."
"Brother, don't you go with me?"
"I have something important tomorrow, and we brothers will meet again."
Qi Yuanshan overlooks the cemetery: "Is it possible that you will also participate in tomb robbing tomorrow?"
Zhongshan didn't know how to answer, and a man's voice sounded behind him: "Yes, tomorrow is the day when I open the tomb of Cixi."
The sound almost made Qi Yuanshan's heart burst. He just turned around and wanted to touch his pistol, but a dagger had already pressed against his neck.
The moonlight illuminated a scar, and Qi Yuanshan saw Ahai's face.
"Brother Ah Hai!" Zhongshan immediately knelt down and begged for mercy for Qi Yuanshan, "Please don't..."
"Zhongshan, I guessed that you would do this long ago. But you should tell me in advance, rather than act without permission." Ah Hai took a step back and pulled the dagger away from Qi Yuanshan's neck, "Qi Yuanshan, you go."
"Why don't you kill me?"
"What's the benefit of killing you?"
"Ahai, you must have ulterior motives if you keep my life."
"You are a smart person, so don't ask too much. There are hiding places on the mountain. Don't come down again. After a few days, the Qing Dynasty's imperial tomb will be hollowed out. Sun Dianying will withdraw his troops and you will be able to go back to Peking."
Qi Yuanshan took two steps back and clasped his fists with both hands: "I owe you what I owe!"
Zhongshan urged: "Brother, go quickly."
"Brother, take care of yourself!"
After saying that, Qi Yuanshan drilled into the vast jungle on the mountain. Even if Sun Dianying sent troops to search the mountain, he might not be able to find a hair.
Zhongshan still knelt in front of Ahai: "Brother Ahai, do you want to kill me?"
"What are you going to kill you?" Ah Hai sneered, "If you can follow me from Taibai Mountain, we are already grasshoppers on the same rope. You will never be able to go back to Qin Beiyang in your life."
"Yes, this is all fate."
Zhongshan complained in his heart, regretting that he believed Lao Jin's words and betrayed Taibai Mountain at the critical moment. Not only did he not get a single or two gold, but he followed Ah Hai to dig a tomb.
Ah Hai put away his dagger: "I don't believe in life."
"But why did you let Qi Yuanshan go?"
"Do you know that "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is the 'Catching and Release Cao' after the Battle of Red Cliff?"
"Huarong Road? Brother Ah Hai, are you comparing to Guan Yun?"
"Wrong, I'm not Guan Yunchang, I'm Cao Mengde."
Chapter completed!